I pray to God that the big twist in the book isn't that assie turns out to be a husky dude in drag. That would suck.

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Why did he choose to do the promo this way? This does nothign to sell the book. The interview is played straight and serious, which would lead the casual observer (who doesn't know any details about the book) to think it's about a big hairy drag queen who has somehow fooled the world into thinking he's the most beautiful woman? This whole setup just doesn't seem like Chuck at all. Why not go for realism? Why not make it look like he's actually interviewing some broken down old porn queen? Or, if you're going to do the drag thing, why not make it... I don't know, funny? Maybe I'm just tired and grumpy because I'm moving right now, but this video just missed for me. I still want to read the book.

Wow, that ad was ridiculously stupid. I'm hoping parts two and three get me more interested in the book. At first, the horned up, sex addict that I am, I was excited about this book....Now, literally at this vey moment in time, I think my penis just crawled into my asshole.

How is it funny? The drag queen locks herself out of her house...it looks like humor could poitentially follow...and then there's a by-the-numbers interview that lays out the basic plot of the book, played straight, no laugh lines. I mean, to me, you get some used-up looking retired porn star, you set it up like adead serious interview, and you get people wondering what the hell the books about - is it fiction? Non-fiction?

This video does nothing for the book. If there's more to come, I would hope it plays on some of the dark humor of the book, or I hope it gets grittier

It's possible that the interview was created for an audience that doesn't already know so much about the book like we Culties do. Look at it from the perspective of an uninformed browser. In that case, I think the clip does enough to generate some interest.

Gangbang world record attempts were pretty common place back inthe 90s. Most of the time, controversy abounds surrounding the fact that these ladies don't have 600 unique partners, rather a smaller group of men who get seconds and thirds and wear different wacky masks each time to disguise their identity.

It's possible that the interview was created for an audience that doesn't already know so much about the book like we Culties do. Look at it from the perspective of an uninformed browser. In that case, I think the clip does enough to generate some interest.

...see above comments about drag queen/wacky humor/actual subject and tone of novel...etc. They'll read the book, and if it doesn't center around said drag queen, either be confused, disappointed, relieved, etc.

I have a feeling Chuck wouldn't really make something that was decidedly not for us Culties. It obviously wasn't intended to be true-to-life (or to novel, I guess technically), just to raise some hype. I thought it was cute... c'mon, the shot of Chuck pouring champagne for the drag queen didn't make you laugh a little?

They shoulda went all out and got kathleen turner to do it, since chuck's said that's who he had in mind anyways. or even like monkeywright said, some dried up retired porn star and played the whole thing completely straight.

That's just a bad image for people to see and start building their idea of who the character is before they start reading the book.

i agree. i thought it was brilliant. did take me half a day to digest, though. but, flawless execution. the ever serious and endearing chuck interview and this.. dude, blatant and in an ugly dress. locks herself outta her house. perhaps in a near future one she'll be picking for snacks outta the trashcan, or picking her nose and then asking the interviewer for tissue. this humor can really go places..

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